Camping -- on the road

We left the resort and headed down the road but we didn't get far.  Had to stop in Cloquet, MN at the ford dealer.  They didn't have the part we needed and couldn't get it quickly.  They told us we could get to our destination -- 150 miles and then get the truck fixed.  Well we didn't make 40 miles and had to get off the freeway and take backroads to the next ford dealer because we could only go 40 miles an hour.  We got to Pine City ford and they let us spend the night in their parking lot while we waited for the part.  They had the part the next morning by 8AM -  so we were on the road again.  It was just a bad sensor that had gotten all waxed up from biodiesel. 

We went to Precision Frame in Elk River, MN.  We had an appointment to have our axles realigned on the 5th wheel so they had us park in their parking lot overnight so they could start work on it right away at 7AM.  We did have electricity at both parking lots so I guess we were lucky.  They did a great job on our rig and we quickly went over to a campground in Ham Lake, MN.  Of course, you can't get anywhere in Minnesota without hitting some sort of road construction detours. 

We are now parked in Altoona, IA at a very nice campground.  The first picture is the Pine City "camping spot".  We did have a nice view of a little stream.  The campground in Altoona is very nice with a nice cement slab to park on as you can see in the picture-- in Ham Lake we were in a mud hole.    It wasn't a bad campground -- it just happened to be very wet and our site was not hard packed gravel like most -- just dirt.  Next stop -- Peculiar, Missouri.